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My family and I have all of these cutting boards that we hang on the wall of our kitchen and they're all the places that we have lived together as a family because we've moved around a little bit and for school and work and things like that.

And it's fun to acknowledge that all of these places have a piece of our heart.

There are places where we spent a good chunk of our time together. But there's one place that we have not technically lived that we also have a wooden cutting board of and that is the state of Alabama.

We've been in Alabama a lot because we have great friends there, but Alabama we felt like it deserved a place on the wall because it's sort of a home away from home.

We like the culture there and we even have a church there that we love a great church that we go to whenever we're there in Northern Alabama.

So Northern Alabama is kind of our adopted home away from home as a family.

Maybe you have one of those as well. Well I can tell you who definitely

had one of those and that is the Apostle Paul. Now maybe he had a few because

dudes from Tarsus and somebody asked a really good question the other day

by the way about Tarsus. They were asking whether Tarsus was in Galicia.

And I think, no, I think Tarsis is in Salicia. I think it's a little bit further east, like toward the extreme northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea.

Galatia is more center cut Turkey, but yeah, Tarsis is kind of around Galatia.

Maybe there's some cultural similarities, but Paul's home home was Tarsis, and then his school home was Jerusalem, I suppose he worked out of there for a while, but then when he had his transitional

moment and everything after that on the road to Damascus, after that, it seems like he maybe

as a home away from home in Antioch, or maybe that just counts as a home home.

I mean he kind of lived in Antioch. He had great affection clearly for the people in Ephesus,

but there's one other place that I think was a home away from home for him and I think it was Galatia

I think it was all those towns around the middle of the province of Galatia. I think that's always stuck with him. I think it always had a special place in his heart.

Because as you read through the rest of the Book of Acts, one of the things that you discover is that those are the places that he went on every single one of his trips.

Now on the first missionary journey, the Prove It Deal, we've been talking about around here,

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